Sujiatun Hospital

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The Sujiatun Thrombosis Hospital is a hospital located in northeast China, Sujiatun district of Shenyang city, is alleged to be the location of a labor camp where Falun Gong practitioners had their organs forcibly removed. The evidence for these claims however, are only based on the testimony of two supposed witnesses, and investigations by the US State Department and other governments have found no evidence whatsoever to support these claims.

1 Organ harvesting allegations
2 Investigations
3 References
4 See also

[edit] Organ harvesting allegations

According to The Epoch Times (a pro-Falun Gong newspaper group) in March 2006, Chinese government agencies were conducting widespread and systematic organ harvesting of living Falun Gong practitioners. Based on apparent eye-witness testimony of two individuals, the practitioners were supposedly detained in labor camps, hospital basements, and prisons located in Sujiatun Hospital, subjected to blood and urine tests, and then matched with organ recipients. When an organ was required, they were injected with potassium to stop their heart and their organs removed and later sold, with their remains being incinerated. [1][2].

[edit] Investigations

Evidence of the accused labor camp in Sujiatun was not found by US State Department's investigation as well as undercover investigations by long time Chinese dissident Harry Wu^[1]. A US Congressional report detailed US embassy's two phased investigation, where an unannounced visit preceded an official visit led by Chinese authorities.^[2] The accusation of systematic organ harvesting was not confirmed nor denied by Amnesty International^[3].

On November 24, 2007, Canadian newspaper Ottawa Citizen questioned the veracity of Wang's Sujiatun death camp allegation^[4]

The hospital that's being accused is a joint venture with a company associated with the Malaysian government. Malay officials have visited the clinic in previous year and also found it to be a hospital, not a concentration camp.

According to Chinese authorities, the pictures used on Falun Gong websites as the suspected site of the "crematorium" in Sujiatun are actually photos of the hospital's 180 square meter boiler house, which is located in front of the residential garden and open to public view. The hospital only contains approximately 300 beds, and disputed Falun Gong's claim of 6000 imprisoned practitioners.^[5]